Posts Tagged ‘load measuring pin’

Leaving the factory this week are 6 x 100te load pins that will be incorporated into machinery used in the logging industry. The load pins provide standard mV/V output, have environmental protection to IP67 and feature an internal greaseway. These load pins will be installed in Steep Slope Winch Assist machinery as part of the winch control mechanism that protects against overload situations by providing operators with live monitoring of line tension and line out. Steep Slope Winch Assist is used to safely secure felling machinery when undertaking wood harvesting on very steep slopes.

As well as supplying large capacity custom design load pins, we also design and manufacture much smaller load pins, like these 40mm diameter load pins being despatched today to a UK supplier of industrial weighing equipment/systems. With a load rating of 1.25te, they will be installed in overhead track cranes that feed hoppers with scrap metal to ensure that the cranes stay within safe operational lifting limits. The load pins have been rationalised to give a standardised 1.2mV/V output, and have an accuracy of 0.4% of rated load. Whether you have a requirement for a one off small load pin or multiple high capacity load pins, we can offer a solution to meet your needs.

Another batch of load pins have been manufactured for one of our customers that specialise in safety equipment for the theatrical industry. Rated to 11te, these load pins will be used to monitor the loads on rigging equipment that allows stage crew to safely hoist curtains, lights, scenery, stage effects and even people. The load pins have a built in amplifier to give 4-20mA output, allowing for simple integration into the main PC-based safety system.

Ready for despatch early next week are 24 custom design load pins rated to 150,000 lbf for a company in Mexico. The load pins are required for 30 newly designed sand silos for oil wells, for which our customer has secured a contract to build within the next 6 months for a USA oil contractor. Four load pins are required per sand silo, so this initial batch will be installed in the first 6 sand silos to be manufactured. The remaining 5 batches of 24 load pins will be despatched on a monthly basis. LCM Systems are also supplying a large digit display per sand silo that shows total load.

This order was unusual for LCM Systems in that the time from the receipt of the initial enquiry to the despatch of the first set of pins was just 6 weeks. The customer needed the load pins in a very short lead time to be able to meet their contract deadline, and LCM Systems was able to accommodate their requirement with receipt of order to finished load pins achieved in just 18 working days.